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Vocapedia > Economy > Types of jobs > Truck drivers
Michelle Kitchen, 54, Phoenix, Arizona
Photograph: Anne-Marie Michel
‘I’ve been driving 30 years. I haul office furniture out to the west coast and produce back to Michigan … just back and forth. I just drive and I’m cool with that. I haul produce, but don’t eat much of it. I’m not a foodie, I eat to survive. I don’t really care for vegetables … my refrigerator is full of Mountain Dew! I’m at the point where if my family don’t get it when I say, “Sorry I’m not gonna be home Tuesday like I said I was going to be” ... then they don’t know me well’
In it for the long haul: female truckers in the US – in pictures Meet the women who’ve faced off sexist comments, health problems and unwanted intruders to pursue a career behind the wheel G Wed 13 Jul 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
Idella Hansen, 67, Phoenix, Arizona
Photograph: Anne-Marie Michel
‘I’ve been out here 50 years. Even got a truck-stop named after me. I currently drive high security, my trailer is lined with Kevlar. At 64 they gave me a gun and taught me how to use it. Never seen one before in my life. It’s a good job and I earn good money. I have a partner but, to be real honest with you, if he went away it wouldn’t bother me. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself. When I can’t drive I don’t want to exist anymore. When I can’t do this or be a part of it .. I’m done’
In it for the long haul: female truckers in the US – in pictures Meet the women who’ve faced off sexist comments, health problems and unwanted intruders to pursue a career behind the wheel G Wed 13 Jul 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
Brita Novak, 50, Dallas, Texas
Photograph: Anne-Marie Michel
‘In 2016 I was voted most beautiful truck driver by Overdrive magazine and that same week I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Right away, I decided on a bilateral mastectomy without reconstructive surgery.
I knew I did not want to have reconstructive surgery.
I turned down chemo and radiation.
I decided to do it my way like I do everything in my life.
After you have kids, you no longer need your breasts.
I can sleep flat on my stomach, I can run better, I can fit sideways through pallets ... and I’m getting more phone numbers thrown at me than ever in my life!’
In it for the long haul: female truckers in the US – in pictures Meet the women who’ve faced off sexist comments, health problems and unwanted intruders to pursue a career behind the wheel G Wed 13 Jul 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
Cheryl-Lynn Ibana-Bean, 48, Dallas, Texas
Photograph: Anne-Marie Michel
‘It’s been a long journey for me. I had lupus. It started 17 years ago and attacked my kidney.
Seven years ago I had a kidney transplant but last year I got a call to say that my transplanted kidney was not doing good.
I had to go back on dialysis and on the kidney transplant list for another kidney.
It’s an automatic seven-year wait, and there’s no guarantee I’ll get one.
My best bet is a live donor.
I’m looking for a type O kidney. Everyone has been wonderful passing out the message, just sharing my post all over. We’re hoping that it will come soon’
In it for the long haul: female truckers in the US – in pictures Meet the women who’ve faced off sexist comments, health problems and unwanted intruders to pursue a career behind the wheel G Wed 13 Jul 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
Truckstop Ministries has chapels, like this one in Ontario, Calif., at truck stops across the country.
Photograph: Jamie Lee Taete
Arcades, Churches and Laundromats: A Trucker’s Haven on the Precipice of Change As truck drivers are forced to adapt to increasing difficulties on the road, the support system that serves them is at risk of disappearing. NYT June 4, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/
Along I-35 in Kansas. Long-haul drivers endure the pressures of a stressful job, intensified by the supply chain disruption.
Photograph: George Etheredge
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck Drivers A 1,000-mile journey through the middle of America reveals the fundamental reason for truck driver shortages: It is a job full of stress, physical deprivation and loneliness. NYT Feb. 9, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/
'In the Land of Hell': Life as a Female Trucker in North Dakota NYT 14 January 2014
'In the Land of Hell': Life as a Female Trucker in North Dakota Video Op-Docs The New York Times 14 January 2014
A young woman, lured to North Dakota for a truck-driving job in the oil industry, shares her agonizing existence in an isolated boomtown.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9eLksDv6k
truck USA
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rig USA
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trucking USA
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driver > truck driver USA
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trucker / truck driver USA
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USA > female truckers UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
'In the Land of Hell': Life as a Female Trucker in North Dakota USA Video Op-Docs | The New York Times 14 January 2014
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women truckers USA
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USA > long-haul drivers / truckers UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/
truck’s cab USA
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an oasis - a gas station with food and showers USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/
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